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The Cato Institute.

A "libertarian" quasi-academic think-tank which acts as a mouthpiece for the globalism, corporatism, and neoliberalism of its corporate and conservative funders. Cato is an astroturf organization: there is no significant participation by the tiny libertarian minority. They do not fund it or affect its goals. It is a creature of corporations and foundations.

The major purpose of the Cato Institute is to provide propaganda and soundbites for conservative and libertarian politicians and journalists that is conveniently free of reference to funders such as tobacco, fossil fuel, investment, media, medical, and other regulated industries.

Cato is one of the most blatant examples of "simulated rationality", as described in Phil Agre's The Crisis of Public Reason. Arguments need only be plausibly rational to an uninformed listener. Only a tiny percentage will notice that they are being mislead. That's all that's needed to manage public opinion.

Enough Said

It is considered ethical to give credit for material you didn't write, yourself. Unless this is your own article, of course.

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Criticisms of the Cato Institute.
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Last updated 08/27/10.

A "libertarian" quasi-academic think-tank which acts as a mouthpiece for the globalism, corporatism, and neoliberalism of its corporate and conservative funders. Cato is an astroturf organization: there is no significant participation by the tiny libertarian minority. They do not fund it or affect its goals. It is a creature of corporations and foundations.

The major purpose of the Cato Institute is to provide propaganda and soundbites for conservative and libertarian politicians and journalists that is conveniently free of reference to funders such as tobacco, fossil fuel, investment, media, medical, and other regulated industries.

Cato is one of the most blatant examples of "simulated rationality", as described in Phil Agre's The Crisis of Public Reason. Arguments need only be plausibly rational to an uninformed listener. Only a tiny percentage will notice that they are being mislead. That's all that's needed to manage public opinion.

Well you've cleared that up now, thanks.

I certainly wasn't trying to claim I'd written it. An oversight.

That's rich, Roger, you lecturing about what is 'ethical'.

I say let's do a It's considered ethical to thread. Are you up for that?

Unlike Gungasneak, who has plagiarised loads of material.

Some reason why anybody should want to read any further than that??

There's a man in the funny papahs we all know

Izzy the POOP POOP, POOP, POOP POOP....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6IpmmYSXA

Urban dictionary says it best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbMeGJNsZNk&playnext=1&list=PL1DC845C2C7E37565

That stand for world sexually transmitted diseases, or what exactly??